Aloha,

Our branch of the family's story is typical of many; working Cheshire farms for generations and then with the rise of the Industrial Revolution working the cotton mills of Lancashire. With the start of the 20th Century it's across the Atlantic for a new life in America. Many settled in around mill towns in the US; Dover, New Hampshire, Lowell, Massachusetts and Utica, New York. This website is dedicated to their many family members everywhere.
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The John and Frances Broadhurst Home c1842 Tithe Maps

An excellent resource for finding where our ancestors lived “once upon a time” is this website: e-mapping Victorian Cheshire: Cheshire’s Tithe Maps Online.
In 1842 John and Frances BROADHURST lived in Hale, Cheshire. John and Frances were my 2nd Great Grandparents.  Their house was situated about where the asterisk is shown below and all the land rented by John Broadhurst, at the [...]

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John BROADHURST and Frances ADSHEAD

John Broadhurst was born in Chelford, Cheshire about 1812. Sometime before 1839 he moved about 8 miles northeast to the village of Bramhall where he farmed. On 10 August 1839, when he was about 27 years old, John married a Bramhall farmer’s 29 year old daughter, Frances Adshead (b abt 1810, Bramhall), at St. Mary’s [...]